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Project Executive / Operations Manager

STO Building Group
Columbia, SC Full Time
POSTED ON 12/28/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/28/2026
Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

The basic function of the Operations Manager is to oversee the administration, direction, and coordination of their regional operations division. The Operations Manager is to make every effort to maximize profit and control cost to ensure stability and future growth within their region. The Operations Manager is a primary interface between Ajax and the Architect, Engineer, and Owner.

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS

  • The Operations Manager reports to and is directly accountable to the Regional Director of Operations
  • The regional Project Managers report directly to the Operations Manager

Requirements

Education

  • Required: Must have at minimum bachelor’s degree in construction management, Civil Engineering or related field.
  • Preferred:Bachelor’s degree in construction management with field experience

Licensing / Registration / Certification

  • Preferred: General Contractors License

Experience

  • Required: 8 or more years of construction management experience.
  • Preferred: 15 or more years of construction management experience.

Skills / Knowledge / Abilities

  • Position requires an understanding of industry practices and trends and their impact on the corporation. Individual must have advanced interpersonal, communicative, and organizational skills.

Essential Functions

  • Profit/Loss responsibility for assigned projects.
    • Hire, terminate, and/or change the duties of assigned personnel, following established company policies, procedures, and practices.
    • Oversee training and evaluate project managers within your region.
    • Audit jobsites in your region for efficiency and accuracy.
    • Act as company representative in negotiations with the owners.
    • Take active role in business development
Duties And Responsibilities

  • Train and supervise all Project Managers in your region.
    • Oversee the Project Managers in your region to control time, cost, quality and safety on the project.
    • Review reports used by Ajax to keep top management accurately informed as to the effectiveness of the management of time, cost, quality and safety.
    • Oversee preparation of the project budget.
    • Oversee preparation of the project schedule.
    • Audit any activities and details associated with and needed for an efficient, profitable project from signing of the contract to conclusion of warranty period.
    • Being totally committed to active participation in the company’s Quality Improvement Plan.
    • Supervision of those reporting to them
    • Maintain good relations with Project Managers and Owners.
Benefits

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, 401(k) retirement plan with employer match, Life & AD&D Insurance, Long-term Disability Insurance, Short-term Disability insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Accident Insurance, Hospital Indemnity Insurance, Home & Auto Insurance, Family Support, Pre-tax Paid Parking/Public Transportation, Paid time off, Time Away Benefits, Paid Holidays, Group Legal, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Identity Theft Protection, Pet Insurance, Employee Assistance Program

Eeo Statement

The STO Building Group family of companies—Structure Tone, Structure Tone Southwest, Pavarini Construction Co., Pavarini McGovern, LF Driscoll, Govan Brown, Ajax Building Company, BCCI Construction, Layton Construction, Abbott Construction, and RC Andersen—includes over 4,000 employees located in offices throughout the US, Canada, UK, and Ireland. We provide a complete range of construction services, from site selection analysis, design constructability review and aesthetic enhancements to interior fit-outs, new building construction, and building infrastructure upgrades and modernization. Learn more about how we partner with our clients to imagine, execute, and realize their vision at stobuildinggroup.com .

We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics .

About Us

What We Do: We build. From workplaces and hospitals to hotels and cultural centers. We build the amazing places that define communities. Our services span the full lifecycle of construction-starting with site evaluations and preconstruction through to commissioning, close-out, and beyond.

The STO Building Group family of companies—Structure Tone, Structure Tone Southwest, Pavarini Construction Co., Pavarini McGovern, LF Driscoll, Govan Brown, Ajax Building Company, BCCI Construction, Layton Construction, Abbott Construction, and RC Andersen—includes over 4,000 employees located in offices throughout the US, Canada, UK, and Ireland. We provide a complete range of construction services, from site selection analysis, design constructability review and aesthetic enhancements to interior fit-outs, new building construction, and building infrastructure upgrades and modernization. Learn more about how we partner with our clients to imagine, execute, and realize their vision at stobuildinggroup.com.

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